They are becoming more and more violent: neo-Nazis in Australia. The government now wants to take action against the strengthening of right-wing extremist groups: the showing and sale of Nazi symbols are to be banned.
Australia wants to ban the public display of Nazi symbols in the face of growing right-wing extremist groups in his country. According to Attorney General Mark Dreyfus, the government will pass a new law next week that will ban both the display and sale of Nazi symbols such as the swastika.
In Australia there is “no place for symbols glorifying the horrors of the Holocaust”. The government will no longer allow people to benefit from the display and sale of items celebrating “the Nazis and their evil ideology,” Dreyfus said.
readiness for violence of neo-Nazis is increasing
The law is due to be presented to Parliament next week. It is expected to be passed with opposition support. According to the Australian intelligence chief Mike Burgess, the willingness to use violence among Australian neo-Nazis has recently increased.
Among other things, men with balaclavas had disrupted a rally for LGBTQ rights in Melbourne. The English abbreviation LGBTQ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer.
More and more Nazi sympathizers
Clashes like these are a sign that these groups feel encouraged and are able to “recruit publicly, spread their beliefs and promote their cause,” the intelligence chief said at a Senate hearing in May.
He also described the increased number of neo-Nazi sympathizers as a danger: More and more people felt attracted to this ideology “for incomprehensible reasons”. According to the Australian Security Agency, around 30 percent of counter-terrorism cases in Australia involve right-wing extremists.